Children's Services - Speech and Language Disorders

The outpatient Speech-Language Pathologists work with children for a variety of communication difficulties.

These include evaluations and treatment for:

Articulation disorder: Speech sound disorders that affect the child's ability to be understood by others.

Expressive and receptive language: Vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, following directions, understanding family and peers,

Social skills needed for effective communication: Difficulties often seen with children who have autism or autistic tendencies, or syndromes that might affect socialization skills.

Stuttering/Fluency: Struggle in the production of a sound in a word, usually consisting of sound/syllable repetitions, sound prolongations and silent blocks.

Voice disorders: Often seen with children who have poor vocal behaviors (yelling, grunting, screaming)

Apraxia: Sound sequence difficulties, often hard to understand.